Posted June 02, 2017
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Do you have a Raspberry Pi? Did you also Install RetroPie on it? Did you install a bunch of good old (PC) games on it? Report how you did it. This thread is related to "The "Judas™ does this run in Wine" thread v1.173" as the Operating Systems of choice for a Raspberry Pi are mostly Linux based.
The goal of this thread is to report how to run PC games on a Raspberry Pi (zero/1/2/3) and serve as a resource for others to reproduce said results. Primarily on RetroPie and preferably for PC games that are or were purchasable on GOG (but all distros and PC games welcome!)
You may ask "Why should I care about this?" Well, a Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive ($10-$35) low powered computer that can be used to play many good old games. a PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM & GeForce GTX 1080 is very nice for modern games but for running games like Doom2, Descent, or Duke3D it's overkill and the power consumption is probably going to be around 300W-500W (Compare that to a Raspberry Pi running on 2.5W).
To learn more about the Raspberry Pi/RetroPie and how to get started, check these pages:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/videos/
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation
When reporting a game, always include system info (Raspberry Pi model, distro, etc) and any configurations/tricks/workarounds needed to install & run the game. (See example below).
Tools to help run games (found in ‘RetroPie Setup’ which is under ‘RetroPie’ menu):
1) Ports (zdoom, eduke32, dxx-rebirth, etc) – probably the most resource efficient means of getting games to work, but are often for a specific game. Some are full games (like sdlpop, OpenTyrian), others come only with the shareware version (zdoom and eduke32) but can be made to run the full game.
2) ScummVM – Has an expanded library for playing old Point&Click adventure games.
3) Others: (DOSBOX, ResidualVM and other DOS emulators and experimental ports) – your millage may vary.
*4) Wine – It is possible run games like UT99 or Diablo using Wine on Raspbian +with PIXEL UI) but running it performantly is a different matter.
Happy Raspberry Pi gaming!
The goal of this thread is to report how to run PC games on a Raspberry Pi (zero/1/2/3) and serve as a resource for others to reproduce said results. Primarily on RetroPie and preferably for PC games that are or were purchasable on GOG (but all distros and PC games welcome!)
You may ask "Why should I care about this?" Well, a Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive ($10-$35) low powered computer that can be used to play many good old games. a PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM & GeForce GTX 1080 is very nice for modern games but for running games like Doom2, Descent, or Duke3D it's overkill and the power consumption is probably going to be around 300W-500W (Compare that to a Raspberry Pi running on 2.5W).
To learn more about the Raspberry Pi/RetroPie and how to get started, check these pages:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/videos/
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation
When reporting a game, always include system info (Raspberry Pi model, distro, etc) and any configurations/tricks/workarounds needed to install & run the game. (See example below).
Tools to help run games (found in ‘RetroPie Setup’ which is under ‘RetroPie’ menu):
1) Ports (zdoom, eduke32, dxx-rebirth, etc) – probably the most resource efficient means of getting games to work, but are often for a specific game. Some are full games (like sdlpop, OpenTyrian), others come only with the shareware version (zdoom and eduke32) but can be made to run the full game.
2) ScummVM – Has an expanded library for playing old Point&Click adventure games.
3) Others: (DOSBOX, ResidualVM and other DOS emulators and experimental ports) – your millage may vary.
*4) Wine – It is possible run games like UT99 or Diablo using Wine on Raspbian +with PIXEL UI) but running it performantly is a different matter.
Happy Raspberry Pi gaming!
Post edited June 22, 2017 by Saberwolf_Prime